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Strip club owner skimmed cash to pamper pooch, pay kids' tuition
Robert Snell/ The Detroit News
Detroit— Pebbles lived the good life, lavished with gifts from a prominent Detroit strip club owner.
The strip club boss paid for Pebbles' doctor visits, personal security and shopping trips for "fetish toys," according to federal prosecutors.
But Pebbles was no stripper. Pebbles was the strip club poobah's pooch.
That's according to the U.S. Department of Justice, which wants a federal judge to sentence Orchard Lake resident Nicholas Faranso to 37-46 months in prison for his role in skimming more than $574,000 from his businesses and cheating the tax man.
The government's sentencing memo, filed last week in federal court in Detroit, colorfully — and sarcastically — chronicles how Faranso used an elaborate computer scheme to siphon money from his strip clubs: Tycoon's on Eight Mile and BT's Lounge in Dearborn.
The computer program was designed to remove part of the clubs' actual sales to make it look like the clubs received less income between 2001 and 2004.
Faranso, 53, was indicted April 7, 2010, on one count of conspiracy and three counts of filing false corporate and personal tax returns. He pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge in January and will be sentenced Aug. 4.
Faranso asked to be sentenced to probation.
He used corporate funds to pay for Pebbles' vet bills, shopping excursions at pet stores and an invisible fence, prosecutors said. Strip club cash also paid for his daughters' private school tuition and a $1,492 photo of his four daughters.
He deducted the photography bill on corporate tax returns. He claimed the expense was for "decorations."
"Given the statements by Faranso and his family that he maintained strict separation of his work life and family life, it seems highly unlikely that he used the photo of his daughters to decorate his strip club," the government's trial attorney Kenneth Vert wrote in the sentencing memo.
U.S. District Judge John Corbett O'Meara will sentence Faranso on Aug. 4 in Ann Arbor.
Robert Snell/ The Detroit News
Detroit— Pebbles lived the good life, lavished with gifts from a prominent Detroit strip club owner.
The strip club boss paid for Pebbles' doctor visits, personal security and shopping trips for "fetish toys," according to federal prosecutors.
But Pebbles was no stripper. Pebbles was the strip club poobah's pooch.
That's according to the U.S. Department of Justice, which wants a federal judge to sentence Orchard Lake resident Nicholas Faranso to 37-46 months in prison for his role in skimming more than $574,000 from his businesses and cheating the tax man.
The government's sentencing memo, filed last week in federal court in Detroit, colorfully — and sarcastically — chronicles how Faranso used an elaborate computer scheme to siphon money from his strip clubs: Tycoon's on Eight Mile and BT's Lounge in Dearborn.
The computer program was designed to remove part of the clubs' actual sales to make it look like the clubs received less income between 2001 and 2004.
Faranso, 53, was indicted April 7, 2010, on one count of conspiracy and three counts of filing false corporate and personal tax returns. He pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge in January and will be sentenced Aug. 4.
Faranso asked to be sentenced to probation.
He used corporate funds to pay for Pebbles' vet bills, shopping excursions at pet stores and an invisible fence, prosecutors said. Strip club cash also paid for his daughters' private school tuition and a $1,492 photo of his four daughters.
He deducted the photography bill on corporate tax returns. He claimed the expense was for "decorations."
"Given the statements by Faranso and his family that he maintained strict separation of his work life and family life, it seems highly unlikely that he used the photo of his daughters to decorate his strip club," the government's trial attorney Kenneth Vert wrote in the sentencing memo.
U.S. District Judge John Corbett O'Meara will sentence Faranso on Aug. 4 in Ann Arbor.
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